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Top Reason for Facebook Unfriending Is Too Many Useless Posts
alphadogg writes "The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Posts about polarizing subjects such as politics and religion as well as inappropriate and racist comments also sever many Facebook relationships, according to Christopher Sibona, a PhD student in the Computer and Science and Information Systems program. 'Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end,' said Sibona, whose research will be published in January by the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 'Perhaps this will help us develop a theory of the entire cycle of friending and unfriending.' Sibona surveyed more than 1,500 Facebook users to get to the bottom of why people dump each other. Not surprisingly, people who flood others with posts are at great risk of being unfriended. 'The 100th post about your favorite band is no longer interesting,' he said." Samzenpus likes this.
I delegated my facebook account to a third party. She can let me know if anything worthwile has occured in my social parabola. (also maintain any farms, etc. I haven't actually looked at facebook in months.
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Coincidentally, I unfriended /. on facebook for this very reason.
Cute pictures of cats and babies. Preferable pictures of both cats AND babies. And bacon.
No kidding -- and I can't even unfriend my wife's family without it being awkward at holidays.
Sounds like that would make a pretty good sandwich...
What? why are you unfriending me!
Slashdot comments are all posts.. all useless.....
I do believe in such things and I still get sick of Christians always saying how amazing God is.
I know. I got it. I friended God on Facebook to get updates straight from him, I don't need you to re-post everything. What, God didn't send you a friend request?
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
Too polarizing= "God punished the ELCA on the day of their gay vote by sending a tornado that caused huge damage in Minneapolis where they held the vote. I hope that sends a message that HE doesn't want gays in HIS church!!"
Too banal= "Thinking about making some scrambled eggs."
Sweet informative mod.
I just checked Glenn Beck's facebook page and he has plenty of friends.
When you're trying to track down old female friends from school, but they've changed their surname since they got married, and now they have a picture of a baby up as their profile pic. How the fuck are you supposed to know it's them?! How are you supposed to know whether to add them or not? Grrrr! Attention, bitches! Not everyone thinks your baby is cute! We just want to get a look at you and see how well you held off the flab over the years so we can gloat about how we're living a more fulfilling life than you are!
Drill baby drill - on Mars
No one uses Facebook anymore, it's too crowded.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.